And to fuel that rage, Buffon has had to make sacrifices,
particularly on the nutritional end. As Robinson notes, Buffon
may have had to make the biggest sacrifice an Italian athlete can
make: pasta and wine.

"In a week I might have eaten pasta nine or 10 times and now I
eat it maybe five times. If I drank 10 glasses of wine a week
before, now I drink two," Buffon told Robinson. "It’s not that
you perform better because you drink three fewer glasses of wine.
But giving up a pleasure is a way to give you that rage."